Andrea Rexilius completed her Ph.D. in Literature and Writing at the University of Denver. She is co-editor of Marcel Press. She is the author of TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION (Rescue Press, 2011) and HALF OF WHAT THEY CARRIED FLEW AWAY (Letter Machine Editions, 2011).

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. His publications include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), The To Sound (Verse Press, 2004; Winner of the 2002 Verse Press, selected by Forrest Gander), and the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis), A Swarm In The Aperture (Margin to Margin), and Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press). He edits Minus House chapbooks, and currently lives in Denver.

Juliana Leslie was born in Cooperstown, New York, and currently lives in Santa Cruz, California. She holds degrees from University of California, Santa Cruz; Mills College; and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. MORE RADIANT SIGNAL is her first book.

Robert Fernandez was born in 1980 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in South Florida. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Iowa Writers's Workshop and the University of Iowa Department of English. We Are Pharaoh is his first book.

Ish Klein grew up in Long Beach, NY. Her book Moving Day will be out in 2011 from Canarium books. A dvd of her videos will also be released from Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon. She's lived all over the world and now lives in Amherst, MA with the writer Greg Purcell.

Diane Kirsten Martin has been published on Poetry Daily, in Field, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Third Coast, North American Review, 32 Poems, Tar River Review, CutBank, and Nimrod, among others. Diane's collection, Conjugated Visits was pubished by Dream Horse Press in spring 2010. She lives in San Francisco.

Aaron Belz has published two books of poetry, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX 2007) and Lovely, Raspberry (Persea Books, 2010), both of which have been reviewed glowingly in Boston Review and the latter of which was named by Books & Culture as a “Favorite Book of 2010.” John Ashbery writes, "Belz’s poetry reminds us that poetry should be bright, friendly, surprising, and totally committed to everything but itself. Reading him is like dreaming of a summer vacation and then taking it." For links to poems, reviews, tour dates, and other information please visit http://belz.net

Jake J. Thomas is a creative worker. He does his best to make poems, paintings, photographs, and stories--out of the horror called life--that express his sense of optimism about people, art and revolution (despite all the evidence that things are falling apart, have never been just, and are in desperate need of fixing). Above all, Jake J. Thomas believes in the power of creative work as a spark to begin the process of transforming our society into one in which we can actually live, into one where freedom is not merely a word that insults our intelligence. You can catch an occasional story or a new series of painting/ poems at his blog: jakejthomas.blogspot.com